The memory of winning the talent show at Marshall Street Elementary is one of the “little things … one of the different experiences that built up to getting here.”

That’s how Jeffersonville’s Devon O’Brien catalogs the time he played air guitar to an audience of cheering children — an early taste of the limelight.

“I want to perform in front of people and show them the stuff I make, the things I create, to express myself,” the Norristown Area High School freshman said.

The boy whose first role was a gangster named Fat Sam in Centre Theater’s 2008 production of “Bugsy Malone, Jr.” at Montgomery County Cultural Center in Norristown is four years later a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG) and American Film, Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) unions.

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A professional actor working out of New York and Philadelphia, Devon, young, focused and very much driven, is signed with a New York manager and a bi-coastal agency and has a resume that includes local television work, national commercials and principal roles in feature films (“The Storm” and “The Happy Sad”) and an episode of the TBS television series “Are We There Yet?”

After his performance in “Bugsy, Jr.,” Devon said he “got really excited about acting.” Through a friend who also was in the play, he connected with a manager in New Jersey, who ultimately offered him his first contract.

He went on to perform in the Centre Theater’s “Beauty and the Beast” and Playcrafters of Skippack’s production of the musical, “13.”

He started going on auditions, which resulted in jobs doing “a little bit of everything,” his father, Dan, said, like a radio and TV voiceover for Walmart, a TV appearance on Nickelodeon’s World Wide Day of Play, a print ad for Dell Interactive Learning and appearing as an extra in “Law Abiding Citizen” starring Jamie Foxx.

In 2011, Devon was featured in Sprint’s 3D Table Tennis commercial, which aired for a few months on major networks. During that time he went to see a movie in Oaks with his family, and as they entered the theater Devon’s commercial appeared on the big screen. They heard someone yell out, “There’s Devon!” It was their neighbors.

But his friends aren’t as impressed by his acting, Devon said. They look to him not as the kid who rejected his TV dad’s fist pump in the funny Sprint commercial, but as the leader of DevBrand, a kids’ production company he founded under which he’s produced 130 videos, most silly, some serious and others all about the music he makes at home on his laptop, starting with beats he creates using a program called Magix Music Maker.

Dan said his son enlists friends and local students, casts them in “music and acting roles in his films and music videos” and also produces, directs, films and edits the videos.

“He has a gift for visualizing shots,” Dan said, adding that DevBrand was born when Devon received a camera as a Christmas gift in 2008.

“Devon composes music, raps, sings and writes his own lyrics,” Dan said, adding, “He also designs and creates all of his own artwork for his productions.”

Devon, who’s been drawing since age 4, said, “When I’m bored, I just sketch.” He now draws on his computer using Microsoft Paint to create characters.

While his “grown-up” goal is to be a director, Devon also has a dream of one day making it as a rapper.” He sees rapping, he said, as a way to “express (himself) through music and social commentary — to say how (he) feel(s).”

When Devon has down time, or he’s sitting in study hall at school and a melody comes into his head, he’ll whistle the tune into his phone. “When I get home, I figure out the notes … plug them in, add the instrumentals and harmonies, work out the chords and record it on my laptop,” he said.

In the short-term, the NAHS freshman is focused on finding an audience.